Ukraine stopped supplying electricity to the Crimea – RBC

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The fact that Ukraine stopped supplying electricity to the Crimea by only functioning still LEP” Kakhovka – Titan, “said Tass on Wednesday evening, on December 30, Minister of Fuel and Energy of the Republic Svetlana Borodulin.

«Now flow – zero. No warning was not, that’s all I can tell “- leads the agency her words.

According to the agency” Kryminform “without electricity remained Krasnoperekopsky, Razdolnensky, Pervomaisky, Sea, Saki, and partly Dzhanskoysky areas of the Crimea and the city of Yevpatoriya and Saki.

«RIA Novosti” Borodulin explained that the line is de-energized due to an accident. She promised that in the near future energy supply will be restored by overflows from the central part of the Crimea.

In turn, n res-secretary of the governor of Sevastopol Sergey Menyailo Kirill Moskalenko told “Interfax” that in connection with the termination of the power supply for power transmission lines “Kakhovka – Titan” in Sevastopol possible rolling blackouts.

Emergency Management of Sevastopol later published on its website a schedule of temporary restrictions of electricity during the hours of the morning and evening peak electricity consumption.

On the night of November 22, 2015 the supply of electricity from Ukraine in Crimea completely stopped after the explosion supports four transmission: Melitopol – Dzhankoy, Kakhovskaya – Ostrovsky, Kakhovskaya – Titanium and Kakhovskaya – Dzhankoi.

December 2 in the Crimea has been launched the first line of the Kuban energy bridge. Use this thread to the peninsula supplied 200 MW. December 15 was introduced by the second line, through which the power supply capacity increased to 400 MW.

8 December Ukraine resumed electricity supply for the least powerful of the lines coming from Ukraine Kakhovskaya – Titanium (220 kW). Maximum power flow on transmission lines restored about 160 MW, emphasized the Ministry of Energy of Russia. Connecting this line fully cover the needs of the Crimea in power. TOgzha the representative of the Energy Ministry declined to comment on whether the agency to extend the contract for the supply of electricity to the Crimea to Ukraine in 2016.